Featured Guest – Sarbari Sen Sarbari Sen is a world famous chef in her family. She feeds one husband, one daughter, one son and their many friends as often as she can. When not making rosgullas she dabbles in homeopathy, tolerates her kids and concocts tales of murder and mayhem….Continue reading→
ISBF2022-Ashesh Mitra
Featured Guest – Ashesh Mitra Engineer by day, content creator by night. A man obsessed with stories. When I am not telling them, I’m reading them or I’m writing them down. I have a functional YouTube channel that is linked to my Scrollstack profile (shoshamitra.stck.me) and a blog which is basically…Continue reading→
A Hypothetical Scenario
Act I Scene 1 A typical Canadian house, in Erin Mills 1980s style. The HomeOwner used to be bespectacled but has since gone bionic and has eagle vision for distances of up to 100 metres, 200 metres in good light. He is greying at the top and bulging around the…Continue reading→
Late
It was always an issue. As the world around him moved faster and faster, he found himself later and later. It wasn’t that he didn’t try. He did. He woke up earlier, ate faster, dressed quicker. When he arrived at work, though, he found he was late. Everyone, it seemed,…Continue reading→
Matchstick
He heard the wail of fire engines racing through the street. He kept walking. As he reached the top of the hill, he got a good view of the village below him. The flames competed with the smoke for ascendancy. The fire engines, two of them, came to a stop…Continue reading→
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Adventures in Sourdough
Sourdough! Sourdough became the buzzword of the pandemic in 2020. Everyone who was stuck at home decided to experiment with sourdough. Every one started a sourdough starter and baked sourdough bread. Except I. As is normal in my life, I procrastinated for months before I came under the spell of…Continue reading→
Dhinchak Selfie
This song has had many, many views. It received millions of viewers and has become a sort of cult classic, based on its viral potency. I have taken the extreme pain of taking the lyrics and translating them for you. First, the original lyrics in the original script, then the…Continue reading→
Originals vs Covers – 4 C less than O
In this episode we will look at Cover versions that are just not equal to the Originals, thus the C<O. Since you’re here, why not check out the rest of the series? Part 1: Where we introduced the topic. Part 2: Where we listed Covers that were better than the…Continue reading→
Originals vs Covers – 3 C=O
In this episode we will look at Cover versions that equal the Originals, thus the C=O. If you’re wondering why we’re here read Part 1 of this series where we had talked about Originals vs Covers and the triggers for this series. We actually had a Part 2, just a few…Continue reading→